Asian Life in Houston | Asian American Poll

ASIAN LIFE IN HOUSTON
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:14:24 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which Houston area offers the best environment for Asian Americans?
Katy/West Houston | 26%
Sugar Land/Ft Bend Cty | 32%
Westside Chinatown | 7%
W Univ Pl/Inner Loop | 24%
The Woodlands | 11%

What's the best thing about living in the Houston area?
No Cold Winters | 3%
Many Good Asian Restaurants | 32%
Reasonable Cost of Living | 54%
Southern Hospitality | 11%

What's the worst thing about living in the Houston area?
Hot Muggy Summers | 56%
Pollution & Dominance by Big Oil | 25%
Rednecks in Outlying Areas | 19%
Asian Community Political Squabbling | 0%

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Another interesting Houston instituiton is the small-yet-prestigious Houston Baptist University, or HBU for short. This small, somewhat expensive little school has a good pre-med program and is situated on about 50 acres of land bordered by The Southwest Freeway (US 59), Memorial Herman Hospital SW, Fondren Rd and Beechnut Street.

A lot of Vietnamese and South Asians students who live in Alief, Sugar Land and West Houston prefer to live at home and make the commute to HBU rather than fight traffic through downtown to go to Rice, University of St. Thomas or any of the U of H campuses. The Conservative Values of the Schol tend to appeal more to Asian parents, even if they are not practicing Christians.

The Asian Population is so large (25% East Asian, 20% South Asian) that it has become nicknamed "Hindu Buddhist University." Their VSA boasts over 200 members--not bad for a school with less than 4000 students. The Presidents of several major campus service organizations (i.e. Alpha Phi Omega) have been Asian American for the past few years.

Another interesting element of Asian American life here in Houston.
Tiffany Van Pham Wednesday, April 03, 2002 at 08:45:48 (PST)

Come on, there's a lot more to the Houston AA community than just Pearl Tea and Hooter's Girls of the Asian pursuasion.

You could have talked about Gordon Quan, Shern-Min Chow, Forbidden Gardens and the Medical Center Community. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Geez Louise!!! Tuesday, April 02, 2002 at 10:07:13 (PST)

One other good reason:

There are several Asian girls who work for the Local Hooter's Sports Bar and Grilles.

Souli, Sherry and Vanessa work at Kirby.

Sandie, Jessica and Arlene work at Woodlake.

Linh, Deanna and Patrcia work at NASA.

Also, I have seen a lot of young Asian guys and girls hanging out at Hooter's Woodlake and Kirby. So come on out for some hot n spicy Chicken wings, cold beer and SWEEEEEEET Asian babes in Tank tops and Short-shorts!!!
Houston Asian Man who's a Hooter's Fan!!! Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:06:04 (PST)

Two Words describing cool Asian Food in H-Town: TAPIOCA PEARL!!!

The best is available at

Tapioca King/Suzhi Teahouse

Hong Kong City Mall--11209 Bellaire Blvd
Diho Plaza--9252-D Bellaire Blvd
4645 HW 6 Suite W in Sugar Land
Sterling Plaza--9888 Bellaire Blvd #118

I highly recommend the Blueberry Milk Bubble with Tapioca Pearls!
Dai Huynh Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 10:01:06 (PST)

Another good think about H-Town--the Texans Cheerleaders have Three Asian American members on a squad of 21. Tammy Oh-Davis, Jie Lin and Ann Anejo. They are of Corean, Chinese and Filipina ancestry respectively. Tammy and Ann are DANG FOINE! And Jie is kind of cute.

Go Texans! KICK THE HELL OUTTA THE COWBUTTS!!!
H-Town Azn Pryde Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 05:23:52 (PST)

You know the bad thing is that most of the country only sees that animated show "King of the Hill" on how people are in Texas. Yes, some of it does come frighteningly close to reality on how buffoonish some people are. I was stationed in Texas while I was in the Army.
At the time I hated it. But now that I'm back home in the northeast I do miss it. The vast majority of people were way nice, Texas hospitality is alive and well. I guess Texas did get in my bones a little. I'd like to go back. Here's a little story, I was in a tattoo shop getting the obligatory military tattoo. While the artist was working on me he asked me where I was from and I said Connecticut. His eyes just got that look like I had offended him somehow. Ha ha! He did good work though and softened up as he finished up my tattoo. I bet anything that if I said I was from Texas it would've been fine. I'd be proud to call myself a Texan.
Mr. Lee Friday, March 22, 2002 at 06:56:09 (PST)

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